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recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting. The grossest and most shocking villainies. Secker. -- Shock"ing*ly, adv. -- Shock"ing*ness, n.

A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.

plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.

To move somewhat like an ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks. The skipping king, he ambled up and down. Shak. Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. Shak.

Moving up and down; -- said of earthquake shocks.

having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks." Evelyn.

The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle.

A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick. Johnson.

ruelty; ferociousness; inhumanity. Treating Christians with a barbarity which would have shocked the very Moslem. Macaulay.

preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.

To diminish the force of; to lessen the shock of, as a fall or blow. I'll rather leap down first, and break your fall. Dryden.

The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of cannon ball." Hudibras. It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor.

A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy. Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong, And tempt not yet the brushes of the war. Shak.

Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.

iastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. Hock.

A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying dowm.

A morbid condition caused by an overwhelming shock or extreme fear and marked by rigidity of the muscles. -- Cat`a*plec"tic (#), a.

Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.

; a polite act or expression. The insolent civility of a proud man is, if possible, more shocking than his rudeness could be. Chesterfield. The sweet civilities of life. Dryden.

the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer. Such actions as the common good requereth. Hocker. The common enemy of man. Shak.